Muhammad is conducting research on the relationship between education and fertility. Muhammad finds that the more education a woman has, the fewer children she is likely to have because educated women spend much of their childbearing years in school or climbing the career ladder. This suggests that there is a ________between education and fertility.

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A negative correlation exists when an increase in one variable is associated with a decrease in another variable. In this case, as education (one variable) increases, fertility, or the number of children (another variable), decreases.

Muhammad Is Conducting Research on the Relationship Between Education and Fertility